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NavSource Online: "Old Navy" Ship Photo Archive

CSS Kenawha Valley

Awards, Citations and Campaign RibbonsCivil War Medal

Steamer:

Built as the steam Kanawha Valley, date and location unknown

Kanawha Valley served in the Mississippi River as a Confederate watch or hospital boat

She was present at Madrid Bend, Mo., in March 1862, when Union gunboats entered the area

"View of Steamers Sunk by the Rebels Between Island Number Ten and New Madrid"
Line engraving, based on a sketch by Alexander Simplot, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting ships sunk by the Confederates off their fortifications at
Island Number 10, circa 7 April 1862. As identified on the engraving, the ships are (from left to right):